Ecumenical Patriarch Germanos

Ecumenical Patriarch Germanos (678-740) was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 715 to 730, succeeding Ecumenical Patriarch Ioannes VI and preceding Ecumenical Patriarch Anastasios.

Biography
Germanos was born in 678 to the patrician Justinian, who was executed in 668 after taking part in Mezezius' murder of Constans II of Byzantium. Germanos survived the persecutions but was made a eunuch by Constantine IV of Byzantium, and after being Bishop of Cyzicus, in 715 Anastasius II of Byzantium deposed Ecumenical Patriarch Ioannes VI and installed Germanos as the new patriarch. In 730 he resigned as Patriarch after Iconoclasm took power in the Byzantine Empire, and the iconoclast Ecumenical Patriarch Anastasios replaced him.